Past Events

“Human Rights in the Age of Climate” Panel at the Ella Baker Center, May 2010

A panel discussion on human rights, climate change, and building a movement to shift us from crisis to healing. Featuring Dr. Michael Nagler, Evelyn Rangel Medina, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Reverend Philip Lawson, and Pano Kroko, recorded on May 21, 2010 at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland, California. Continue reading for video… read more

Nonviolence and the Red Juvenil

Please join us on Monday, February 15, 2010 at 5:00pm at La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley for a talk by Colombia’s courageous lawyer Adriana Castaño Roman, youth activist and human rights defender, activist with the Medellín Youth Network since 1996. The Medellín Youth Network (www.redjuvenil.org) is a youth organization that operates explicitly on principles… read more

“Amma” Krishnammal Jagannathan at The Metta Center

Krishnammal Jagannathan, known as  “Amma” (“Mom”) spent some days with Gandhi and sang songs at his independence protests. After marriage, she joined Vinoba Bhave’s Bhoodan movement to walk tens of thousands of miles for the landless. In 1959, she hosted a visiting Martin Luther King, Jr.  In 2008, for holding the beacon of Gandhian legacy… read more